Ethnic Differences in Women's Employment

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2376239
AutoresClare Holdsworth (0000-0002-9064-3493, University of Manchester), Angela Dale (0000-0001-5057-3470, University of Manchester)
Año1997
Volumen11
Número3
Páginas435-457
Fecha de publicación1997-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWork Employment and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0950017097113003
OpenAlexW2157955668
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas37
Referencias citadas13

This paper uses the 1 per cent household file from the Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) for the 1991 Census and the ONS Longitudinal Study (LS) to explore variations in patterns of employment and occupational attainment among women from different ethnic groups. The analysis of the SARs focuses on the impact of lifecycle events on women's employment status and economic activity. The presence of a partner is identified as having the greatest impact on Pakinstani and Bangladeshi women's employment, while the presence of a pre-school child is most significant for White women's economic activity. White women also have a higher rate of part-time worlding than all other ethnic groups. These patterns are for malised in two models, one for economic activity and a second for full-time/part-time work. The LS is used to investigate the impact of these employment patterns on women's occupational attainment over a ten-year period. The analysis demonstrates that, while minority ethnic women in nonmanual occupations have similar longitudinal occupational profiles to White women, those in manual occupations fare worse than their White counterparts, despite the fact that a larger propotion of minority ethnic women are in fill-time employment

Census · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Ethnic group · Labour economics · Longitudinal study · Occupational prestige · Political science · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Labor Movements and Unions · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare